2022 RECAP 2022 was our year to see the eastern states. We wanted to see a lot of historical sites, take in the fall colors, look for potential retirement locations, and spend our holidays in Key West. Part way through…
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Key West’s great vibe, pretty beaches and compact historic downtown has a lot to offer if you book a few things in advance (Key West post with information and tips linked here), but if you have the time, there…
Highlands Hammock State Park is one of the earliest examples of a grass-roots campaign to support the environment. Local citizens acquired the property here and agreed to protect it even before the Florida state park system was established in…
I’d guess that every 8 times of out 10 years, Doug requests a family bike ride for his birthday and this year was no exception. We rode the The Spanish Moss Trail, a rail to trail near Beaufort (pronounced…
Milbridge is on the northeastern coast of Maine and about an hour away from Acadia National Park. We had the tiny campground of McClellen Park and its rocky shoreline to ourselves the night before we entered Bar Harbor and Acadia…
From Montreal (post here) we followed the Saint Laurent River north to reach Quebec City. Quebec City is not quite as bike friendly as Montreal, but it is still bike friendly and is also very walkable given its size…
From NY’s Finger Lakes we had two weeks in the Adirondacks before needing to be in Plattsburg NY. There are so many lakes and places to visit that it would be tough for me to say “you must do…
Sometime old movies or television shows reference honeymooning in Niagara Falls, which always seemed weird to me. I’d also heard that a lot of people travel to the US just to see it. Again, seemed weird…that is, until we…
From the Zippo Museum in Bradford PA (post here) we drove north through Great Valley to Four Mile Creek State Park to camp. The next day we’d planned a bike ride to Fort Niagara State Park, but it was…
If you don’t know anything about Valley Forge, the short version is that shortages in food, a cold winter, lack of hygiene, and poor medical knowledge created a bonafide military clusterfuck for the Continental Army who managed to later…
